Steininger and Schaumberger exhibition

Other great exhibitions await you at Danubiana: Erich Steininger’s exhibition Layering and Breaking down Boundaries and Florian Schaumberger’s exhibition Minimalist Heads.

Erich Steininger. Layering and Breaking Down Boundaries

The work of Erich Steininger presented at the exhibition at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum covers two decades of artistic creation and brings together key groups from his extensive graphic work, namely a 14-part series of woodcuts from the 1990s and a five-part series of monotypes. Woodcut – a technique of relief printing – represents a truly royal artistic discipline in his work.

Steininger’s woodcuts have been created with remarkable consistency and continuity since the mid-1960s. Initially still influenced by a figurative and expressionist approach, they increasingly develop towards abstract-structural and ornamental pictorial worlds.

In the series of works entitled Body Transforms into Landscape, pink, yellow and black are overlapped using a complex printing process. By pressing several plates on top of each other on one sheet, the figure and the structure begin to intertwine, compact and dissolve into each other. The line increasingly detaches itself from its purely descriptive function, becomes independent and begins to form networks. The body breaks down boundaries – it becomes a landscape.

The layering of colors, the interweaving of line and surface acts as a visual reflection of this hope – as if a process of liberation is taking place in the image itself. Monotypes bring a different, almost radiant accent. In this technique, the aluminum plate is first coated with printer’s black, which is then wiped off with a brush. The second plate brings a blazing, fiery orange color, as well as the black color of the marks. This creates unique pictorial events – fiery, atmospheric, carrying an immediate painterly presence.

Barbara Steininger-Wetzlmair

Florian Schaumberger. Minimalist Heads

Florian Schaumberger’s contemporary sculptural work is characterized by concepts such as materialization, minimalism and a focus on elementalism. The works exhibited at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum from the Head and Ahead series move on the border between figurative and architectural approaches. In the Head series, cubic forms intertwine. The shape of the head is radically minimized and transferred to a vertical and horizontal coordinate system. The organic shape turns into an architectural construction.

Schaumberger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ioannis Avramidis, he was influenced by the cubist school of sculpture according to Wotrub, but the image of a person always remained the center of attention. The sculptor radicalizes the formal language into a minimalist concentrate on the border with abstract expression.

Schaumberger’s works refer to a person and represent closed sculptural units. The Ahead sculptures are upright, columnar structures that, with their vertical statuary, resemble guardians. The sculptor first creates his sculptures from wooden boards and then has them cast in bronze, such as the golden-glossed version of Shining Ahead. In addition to the formal dimension, the sculptures radiate a spiritual power, something focused, contemplative, internal, present within oneself. The current works are diametrically opposed to Schaumberger’s previous welded steel sculptures, which were characterized by dynamism, openness, and violent expressiveness.

Florian Steininger

Biography

Erich Steininger

1939 Oberrabenthan (Waldviertel) – 2015 Vienna
1963 – 1970 studied graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Member of the Künstlerhaus Vienna; teacher, later teaching at the Academy
President of the Lower Austrian Regional Association of Art Societies (1995 – 2009), Director of the DOK St. Pölten
His works are represented in important museum collections (e.g. Lentos and Albertina).

Florian Schaumberger

Born in 1962 in Vienna.
1980 – 1984 Higher School of Graphic Arts
1984 – 1992 Study of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Professor Ioannis Avramidis
Since 1992 he has been intensively involved in large-scale sculptural works in public spaces and has participated in numerous competitions and exhibitions.

Location: Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Čunovo, Slovakia

Date: from 05. 05. 2026 – 28. 06. 2026

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Entrance fee:

Adults – 12 €
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 25 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 6 €
Students – 6 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Members of the Danubiana Club – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years old – Free

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